The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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The fate of man is man.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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